Thinking AND living outside the box

Last Winter, False Creek's live-aboards learned the hard way about a new law threatening their whole lifestyle and challenged it. I made the movie Watersquatters as a complete picture of the series of events that changed the course of their lives forever.

During 2006 I met a garden-variety of eccentric and sophisticate urbanites that refused to be defined by labels, living on makeshift boats and cutting-edge yachts. They left the usual trappings of large homes and shabby hotel rooms and moored on the outskirts of False Creek’s marina system.

What came out if it is a video documentary covering the life of nine of them, more specially Jordan who, on top of challenging the authorities' constant enforcement, had to confront the other boat-dwellers' prejudices.

I hope to share in this blog every detail about the filming of Watersquatters and would like your input. Please write to VIDEO OUT (VIVO) to request a DVD copy.